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    Necessary Madness
    Necessary Madness
    Necessary Madness
    Audiobook5 hours

    Necessary Madness

    Written by Jenn Crowell

    Narrated by Sheila Hart

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    About this audiobook

    From the critically acclaimed author of Etched On Me comes a poignant, moving story of resilience and second chances.

    After nine short but blissful years of marriage, American expat Gloria Burgess's world shatters when her British artist husband dies of leukemia. Estranged from her mother, utterly alone in her adopted home of London, she must now struggle to raise her young son on her own—and fight the temptation to sink into the self-absorption of grief that once drove her father to suicide.

    As she puts on a retrospective of her late husband's work, Gloria finds solace in the form of an empathetic friendship with a charming widower, and agrees to let her mother cross the Atlantic to stay with her for their first visit in a decade. The reunion could drive the wedge between them deeper ... or offer Gloria a priceless opportunity for regaining equilibrium and wholeness. Will she seize the opportunity, or turn her back on a new beginning?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 27, 2009
    ISBN9781423385967
    Necessary Madness
    Author

    Jenn Crowell

    Jenn Crowell was seventeen when she wrote Necessary Madness. She attended Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

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